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Subject: 
Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:29:00 GMT
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Laura Gjovaag wrote:
> How is that going to help me, or the average child builder, build
> everything I mentioned in my note?  I wasn't *just* talking about houses,
> you know.  Please read my whole note:
> http://www.lugnet.com/dear-lego/?n=485

I did read it.

> Also, what kind of roofing do basic brick buckets have?  Do they have
> windows in basic brick buckets?  Doors?  Do they have all the bricks
> necessary to make minifig scale shelving for libraries, stadium seating
> for minifig scale movie theatres?  Are there the kind of bricks you need
> to make a classroom?  Does a basic bucket provide enough parts to make
> something truly interesting and unique?

*A* basic bucket?  Well.... depending on your situation, maybe, and
maybe not.  As it was, I bought my boys 4 buckets of LEGO with about a
thousand bricks in each.  This seemed to solved _their_ housing
problem.  I don't know what it would take for yours.

As for building other constructs other than apartment buildings or
houses, try being innovative.  There's a lot of ways that you can use
the basic brick.

> And where is the inspiration?  You want to build a LEGO car, you've got
> lots of models to work from.  If you want to build a house, all you have
> is 20 year old idea books, if you are lucky.  Where are today's children
> supposed to get the inspiration from?

Their imagination, perhaps?  (Sorry, I didn't mean that to sound as rude
as it probably did)

> You go into a store and look at LEGO on the shelves, and you see NOTHING
> to indicate the potential the bricks have for building all kinds of
> things.  All you see are vehicles, vehicles, and more vehilcles.  Boys
> stuff.

I can sympathize with your situation.  You might try actually writing to
LEGO directly.  I wish I knew what else to say

Why aren't there any houses or buildings (apart from the awful
> police stations and fire departments)?  Doesn't LEGO realize that a wider
> range of sets would result in a wider audience?

Well, you can always build them yourself from scratch, as I said before.

> Please read http://www.lugnet.com/dear-lego/?n=486 if you still don't
> understand my post.

I think I understood it just fine.

> "Calm down" indeed.

No offense was intended.

> > Mark

(p.s.  whatever happened to the LEGO slogan "a new toy every day"?)



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(...) How is that going to help me, or the average child builder, build everything I mentioned in my note? I wasn't *just* talking about houses, you know. Please read my whole note: (URL) what kind of roofing do basic brick buckets have? Do they (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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